Southern Fiction
The Old Place
Small towns have secrets, obviously, but sometimes’s it good to air them out.
The Old Place by Bobby Finger. G.P. Putnam’s Sons. pp.336. $27.
In many small-town communities, residents know very little about personal space. Billington, Texas (the setting of New York-based journalist and podcaster, Bobby Finger’s novel, The Old […]
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